Work with street vendors to identify areas where we could place infrastructure like parking, power, water
Work with the unions and council management to identify how we can incentivise new ideas for doing things better
Options like providing the team that identifies the improvement a cut of the savings for a period of time. Also include the unions in that cut to help encourage them
Work with businesses to encourage them to provide time for staff to make submissions to council
Push to have the “Commercial sensitivity” argument heavily curtailed when it comes to OIA requests
Options like restricting its use on contracts for 12 months after the signing
Work with unions to identify areas where process improvements can be made
Union members have a massive amount of institutional knowledge that should be leveraged for mutual benefit. This is not a zero sum game
Explore the allocation of a ring fenced experimental budget for council staff to use to explore new tools and ways of doing things. Leaving councillor hands out of it.
Would still want to make sure that the reason for using the funds to try something out are clear and have a solid set of metrics.
Work with council leadership and workers to identify if there are ways we can introduce even more incremental efforts.
We would have to be willing to accept more cases of rework even when things are going well
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